Spatiooral variability of faunal and floral assemblages in Mediterranean temporary wetlands

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 337, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 695-708

  Rouissi, Maya ^a,b,c   Boix, Dani ^d   Muller, Serge D ^e   Gascón, Stéphanie ^d   Ruhí, Albert ^d   Sala, Jordi ^d   Bouattour, Ali ^f   Jilani, Imtinen Ben Haj ^b,g   Ghrabi Gammar, Zeineb ^b,h   Ben Saad Limam, Samia ^a,b   Daoud Bouattour, Amina ^a,b  

^a FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b des Arts et des Humanités   (Tunisia)

^c University of Carthage   (Tunisia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^e INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^f PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^g Institute of Higher Learning of the Studies in Biology and Geology of Sokra Tunis:1   (Tunisia)

^h INSTITUT NATIONAL AGRONOMIQUE DE TUNISIE   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Aquatic fauna; Biodiversity; Hydrophytes; Northern Tunisia; Seasonal dynamics

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER; WATER;

AQUATIC COMMUNITY; BIODIVERSITY; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; PHYTOSOCIOLOGY; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

AQUATIC FAUNA; AQUATIC FLORA; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY SUCCESSION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SEASON; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY; TUNISIA; WETLAND; ANIMAL; AQUATIC SPECIES; CHEMISTRY; PLANT; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

TUNISIA;

ANIMALS; AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; ENDANGERED SPECIES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; PLANTS; SEASONS; TUNISIA; WATER; WETLANDS;

EID: 84920074751     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: 17683238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2014.09.006     Document Type: Article

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